move default config files from /etc/default -> /etc/defaults, to be
consistent with what FreeBSD uses /etc/defaults for, and since SVR4
uses /etc/default for another purpose.
as discussed on tech-use

move default config files from /etc/default -> /etc/defaults, to be
consistent with what FreeBSD uses /etc/defaults for, and since SVR4
uses /etc/default for another purpose.
as discussed on tech-userlevel, and no objections were made.

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migrate guts of these /etc/foo.conf config files into /etc/default/foo.conf,
and source the latter in the former. this makes it easier for a sysadmin to
upgrade the default files without affecting l

migrate guts of these /etc/foo.conf config files into /etc/default/foo.conf,
and source the latter in the former. this makes it easier for a sysadmin to
upgrade the default files without affecting local config, and retains the
semantics that the /etc/foo.conf files are the actual files that are edited
(as opposed to /etc/foo.local.conf or /etc/foo.conf.local or whatever, which
isn't as intuitive).

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add configuration file for daily, weekly, montly, as
daily.conf, weekly.conf and montly.conf. the file
allows each action taken by all scripts to be turned
on or off.